Hail, Caledonia
- When
- July 10, 11:18 AM EST
- Where
- Caledonia County, Lyndonville
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 44.533, -72.000
Hail in Vermont, July 10, 2001
Thunderstorms developed in an unstable airmass ahead of a surface trough during the afternoon hours. Large hail was reported with locally gusty winds.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
Thunderstorms developed in an unstable airmass ahead of a surface trough during the afternoon hours. Large hail was reported with locally gusty winds.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 10:13 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 10:13 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT 1113 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001 BATCH OF SHOWERS/TSTMS NOVG ACROSS NORTHERN VT AND THE SOUTHERN CHAMPLAIN VLY ATTM...WITH AN ISOLATED TSTM IN SRN ST LAWRENCE COUNTY...WITH SKIES THEN BECOMING PARTLY SUNNY. HOWEVER...BUFKIT SOUNDINGS FOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON STILL SHOWING AIRMASS ACROSS THE AREA UNSTABLE WITH CAPES IN THE 500-1000 J/KG RANGE...SO CANNOT RULE OUT A CHC OF A LATE DAY SHOWER OR TSTM AFTER THIS FIRST BATCH LATE THIS MORNING HAS ENDED. ALSO...HAVE SOME CONCERN WITH SHRTWV JUST NORTH OF MICHIGAN ATTM DROPPING SEWD WHICH WILL AID IN ANY TSTM DEVELOPMENT LATE IN THE DAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. SPC STILL HAS AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE TSTMS TODAY...SO WILL KEEP ENHANCED WORDING OF GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL IN THE ZONE FORECASTS FOR THE REST OF TODAY. HAVE CUT BACK POPS TO 50 PERCENT FOR THE REST OF TODAY. OTRW...NO CHGS TO THE REMAINDER OF THE FCST. .BTV...NONE. WGH
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:17 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Wyoming, July 10, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, July 10 to 11, 2001
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, July 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 10 to 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 10 to 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 10, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001
More
Every storm in Vermont in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, July 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5262044.